Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is launching her latest attack against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her personal relationship with the special prosecutor she hired to help oversee former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia.
Greene submitted an official complaint to the state ethics commission on Thursday, accusing Willis of criminal misconduct by misusing federal funds to pay special prosecutor Nathan Wade a higher salary than other prosecutors on the case. The Georgia Republican also alleged that Wade used some of these funds to pay for luxury vacations and other “lavish trips.”
The complaint cites written testimony provided by Willis and Wade last week that stated any “expenses for personal travel were roughly divided equally between us” through personal funds. That affidavit attached receipts for plane tickets when the pair traveled to Miami from Dec. 30, 2022, to Jan. 3, 2023.
Greene alleged Willis and Wade did not provide enough documentation, referring to a cruise the couple allegedly took together.
“Was this their Caribbean cruise?” Greene wrote in the filing. “They did not provide any evidence that Fani Willis paid for any cruises, hotel rooms, meals, entertainment, excursions, airport transfers, or other travel expenses for this or any other trips, like Nathan Wade and Fani Willis’ alleged trip to Napa.”
Greene also listed a number of concerns she said the Fulton County district attorney must answer, such as why the trip had not been disclosed previously and what other vacations have been taken.
Greene further cited a number of times Willis allegedly failed to disclose personal finances to the Georgia Ethics Commission, noting the district attorney did not do so in 2021 or 2022.
“This pattern of behavior suggests that Fani Willis’ repeated failure to file such disclosures is intentional, or at least a wanton disregard for her duties and the law,” Greene wrote. “These disclosures would have allowed the public to discover her inappropriate relationship with her secret boyfriend and special prosecutor Nathan Wade, which has illegally tainted her already spurious prosecution against former President Trump and 18 co-defendants.”
As part of her complaint, Greene is pushing the state’s ethics commission to investigate Willis’s alleged failures to disclose “suspicious relationships and transactions.” If any misconduct is found, Greene is requesting any subsequent punishments that are deemed necessary.
The latest complaint comes after Greene submitted a similar ethics report against Wade last month, accusing him of failing to disclose gifts he made to Willis. The Republican congresswoman also has demanded an investigation into the couple over allegations of an “illegal conflict of interest” in the district attorney’s case against Trump.
The complaints first arose after Mike Roman, one of 18 Trump allies indicted by a Fulton County grand jury for allegedly conspiring to subvert the county’s election results, dropped a bombshell complaint last month alleging Willis and Wade engaged in an “improper, clandestine” relationship.
It was not until court records from Wade’s previously sealed divorce case were leaked to the media last month, which included credit card records, that Roman’s allegations began to carry credibility. The transactions from Wade showed he and Willis went on a Royal Caribbean cruise together in October 2022 and that he paid for at least two flights months after her office hired him that January.
Willis has since acknowledged having a “personal relationship” with Wade but denied any professional conflict of interest, arguing it was not enough to disqualify her from Trump’s election interference case.
“While the allegations raised in the various motions are salacious and garnered the media attention they were designed to obtain, none provide this Court with any basis upon which to order the relief they seek,” Willis stated in a court filing last week.
Wade wrote in an affidavit attached to the filing that he developed a personal relationship with Willis in 2022 after he was hired to prosecute the Trump election interference case.
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Willis is the lead prosecutor on the Trump case, prompting the former president to call for her removal and for the charges to be dismissed.
The Washington Examiner contacted the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and the Georgia Ethics Commission for comment.
